Objective
The SPECS Project aims at introducing SDL based CASE tools as a support to the analysis/ design/ coding activities of Italtel BURM (Business Unit Reti Mobili), a Europe's leading full-line manufacturers in the telecommunications field.
The PIE falls within the scope of a large Process Improvement Program running at Italtel BURM after a process assessment performed in June 1995. In this context, the baseline project will be a major release of a Network Element of a GSM system.
ACTIONS
The objectives will be achieved through the adoption of SDL (Specification and Description Language), a formal specifications language particularly suited for specifying and describing real-time systems (and thus for telecommunications software development projects).
The adoption of SDL will be supported by the adoption of the SDT CASE tool-kit.
The distinguishing characteristics of the PIE can be identified as follows:
tool selection, in order to procure the tools that better adhere to the specific needs;
customisation for the specific environment, in order to adhere to the peculiarities of the proprietary operating system;
pilot application, to run the experiment;
analysis of results, to evaluate the success of the initiative;
preparation for deployment and widespread adoption, if the analysis activities bring to positive results.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The PIE is expected to have a direct impact on several quantitative indicators such as Timeliness, Fault rate in analysis/design, Productivity. In particular, the main goals of the PIE are represented by the increase of the software productivity in development and the availability of better documentation both for internal usage and for customers; those aspects indeed have a direct influence on the costs and quality of the delivered products and hence on the company competitiveness.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications system software operating systems
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications
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20149 Milano
Italy
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